Olaf Pursche

Olaf Pursche is Head of Marketing & Communications of the Swiss IT Security Group (SITS Group) and CCO of the AV-TEST Institute, Germany. As a student of law and economics in the early 1990s he worked at the Institute of Law and Informatics of the Leibniz University of Hanover. He joined PC Professionell Magazine, wrote on the topics Computer & Law and tested Security Software and Internet Services for several years. He developed the IT Security editorial and testing division of Europe‘s largest computer magazine, COMPUTER BILD, which he headed for 15 years and wrote for several newspapers like BILD and Welt. Since 2015, he is responsible for Communications, Press Relations and heads the Marketing Department of the AV-TEST Institute. He is a member of the advisory boards of public authorities like the Expert Council Cyber Security of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), the advisory board IoT of the ECO association and the Competence Group Security, consultant in the expert group IoT of the Association of German Insurers (GDV) and other trade organisations.